Director
General, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN)
Alhaji Muhammed Nadada Umar said that the agricultural sector in the country
could still be the stronghold of the nation's economy.
Alhaji
Umar noted that there would be profitable returns for farmers if farming
activities are taken as professionals.
According
to him, full implementation of the Nigeria's Transformation Agenda as regards
the agriculture sector would lead to the revival of the sector for the next two
decades.
This,
he made known to some members of the Society of Youth in Agriculture (SYA)
during a recent courtesy visit to the agency's headquarters in Abuja.
Also
speaking during the visit, SYA president, Mr. Bakare Oladimeji asserted that
the objective of the visit is to seek areas where the SYA could collaborate
with the agency towards the provision of technical and entrepreneurship
training which are some of the objective of the youth's body.
The
SYA president also told SMEDAN DG that the organisation had birthed several
agricultural projects of which 'Operation Wake Up' is one of the numerous
projects.
The
'Operation Wake Up,' initiative according to Oladimeji, is a Young Farmers
Entrepreneurship Scheme aimed at reducing the rate of unemployment among youths
in the nation.
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